DO YOU remember the first time? In a series of self-indulgent walks down memory lane, the writer tries to remember HOW to write.THE FIRST time I came back was only a couple of months after I left.A friend of mine…

I’M SITTING opposite my dad in a shitty two-for-one family pub. “It’s OK if you need to starve yourself on a Wednesday and binge on a Sunday,” he says, “lots of people do that. You just don’t want to get any…

MY BROTHER is making a baby. If my parents had made us in the same way, we wouldn’t exist. I understand his reasons. He doesn’t want his child to suffer the same things we have. Doesn’t want to put his…